Hamish wrote: > anything written to stdout is fair game for people to parse with > scripts, and rightly or wrongly people will be parsing using > the default output instead of -g, and using brittle ways like > `head` and `tail` instead of grep, and these cosmetic changes > will definitely will break their personal scripts.
I disagree. If a module has a -g flag, scripts which parse the "human readable" format are already broken. E.g. much of the output from v.what (without the -g flag) is localised, so simply changing the message catalogues (or LC_MESSAGES) will break the script. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
